digital transformation

When it comes to investing in ERP systems, improving the efficiency and responsiveness of business processes is a top concern for SAP customers. However, among IT professionals, safe delivery is of higher priority than ERP digitalization or starting an IT agility transformation.
With SAP S/4HANA, this no longer needs to be a compromise. When moving to SAP S/4HANA, IT professionals need to implement not only the technical upgrade of SAP S/4HANA but also the required customizations, which necessitate an intensive amount of business collaboration and software delivery. And for that to happen, IT needs an enterprise agile delivery solution to gather and implement the business requirements to SAP S/4HANA as quickly as possible without business disruption.
Read this white paper to discover how you can transition to SAP S/4HANA and achieve true enterprise agile delivery — a new standard to deliver changes to your SAP environment. Topics include:
› Sync business and IT to ensure your ERP solu

The following questions were posed by Microsoft's manufacturing team to Robert Parker, group vice president at IDC Manufacturing Insights, and Kimberly Knickle, research vice president at IDC Manufacturing Insights, on behalf of Microsoft's customers.

Analysts and industry experts agree: Digital disruption in manufacturing is on the horizon. Technologies like the Internet of Things, dynamic enterprise management, global supply chain visibility, and machine learning are already changing the way manufacturers produce goods and interact with customers. Further changes will continue to intensify issues and reveal opportunities.

Analysts and industry experts agree: Digital disruption in manufacturing is on the horizon. Technologies like the Internet of Things, dynamic enterprise management, global supply chain visibility, and machine learning are already changing the way manufacturers produce goods and interact with customers. Further changes will continue to intensify issues and reveal opportunities.

Clearly, data centre modernisation can achieve a wide variety of business benefits for an equally wide variety of organisations. Data centre modernisation programmes are also far reaching. They reach way beyond the desire to merely reduce costs. They add significant business value, and often become the essential cornerstone of digital transformation.
When starting on your own path towards modernisation, it’s vital to recognise that your success depends on making use of advanced public cloud services that sit at the vanguard of enterprise technology’s capabilities. If they don’t, you risk not being able to gain access to a world of new possibilities.

Senior leaders realise the stakes of not addressing digital transformation. PWC suggests that CEOs who aren’t prioritising digital are either changing their minds or being phased out. If you compare PWC’s 2007 Digital IQ report to 2016’s, you’ll see that the number of executives who said their CEO was a champion for digital has more than doubled from 33% to 68%.
Digital transformation doesn’t have to be intimidating or complicated. If you take it in stages and work with an experienced partner, it can be a straightforward journey. At this stage, it’s all about transforming how people work.

A majority of businesses have adopted digital platforms across multiple channels and in many cases successfully utilised them to drive efficiency and profitability. Technology, and the data that often underpins it, has become an extremely valuable asset for businesses of all sizes.
The way that companies do business has also changed and technology has played a key role in this, customers now expect instant gratification and a service model that suits their specific needs.
This paper will analyse the cause and effect of companies implementing digital transformation strategies and understand the role of cloud technologies within this. It will also explore some of the wider aspects of business transformation and the journey’s businesses take to implement innovative technologies.

IBM API Connect is a comprehensive management solution that addresses all four aspects of the API lifecycle: create, run, manage and secure. This makes API Connect far more cost-effective than limited point solutions that focus on just a few lifecycle phases and can end up collectively costing more as organizations piece components together. Download this datasheet and find out how IBM API Connect can help your organization.

Hybrid cloud has emerged as the cornerstone for digital transformation, enabling developers to create unique and compelling mobile, IoT, and web applications while extending their IT investments and capabilities. Attend this webinar to learn how you can leverage your WebSphere Application Server infrastructure and investments to maximize performance, lower costs, and successfully move forward into a hybrid cloud world.

IBM API Connect is a comprehensive management solution that addresses all four aspects of the API lifecycle: create, run, manage and secure. This makes API Connect far more cost-effective than limited point solutions that focus on just a few lifecycle phases and can end up collectively costing more as organizations piece components together. Download this datasheet and find out how IBM API Connect can help your organization.

Explore The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q4 2016
Your digital transformation is powered by the creation, running, and management of APIs. This year, IBM was named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q4 2016 The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q4 2016. View the reprint of the report to see why Forrester recognized IBM and why we believe IBM is the best partner for you as you further your API management goals, and your digital transformation.

Start the journey to operational and digital excellence by gaining a clear strategy for the first steps forward.
This resource includes:
• An executive summary of Smart Manufacturing
• Benchmarking manufacturing operations management
• The road to MOM 4.0
• Digital transformation is a vehicle, not a destination
• Recommendations to achieve digital excellence
Manufacturers need to start now and follow a clear path from corporate strategic objectives through to successful program implementation.

This spotlight report examines:
• How Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) or Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are key enablers of data management and Digital Transformation. Companies can combine many other opportunities with manufacturing operations in a digital journey.
• Product lifecycle management (PLM) as a high-value discipline to pair with MOM in discrete manufacturing, and the value of digital continuity across engineering, manufacturing operations, and supply chain.
• A robust integration of MOM and PLM technologies and the advent of the Digital Twin (a virtual copy of the product and how it's made) to demonstrate maturity in Smart Manufacturing and the ability to make smart products in smart factories.
The IIoT has opened up a world of opportunity for manufacturers. Take advantage of it.

Two-thirds of organizations that blend traditional and cloud infrastructures are already gaining advantage from their hybrid environments. However, leaders among them use hybrid cloud to power their digital transformation, going beyond cost reduction and productivity gains.

Digital transformation brings risks and opportunities for internal audit and risk functions. Are you ready to help the business stay safe in an increasingly challenging technology environment?
Watch this webinar to understand:
• the unique risks from artificial intelligence
• the relevance of AI technologies for internal audit and risk functions
• what an effective risk and control framework looks like for AI risks
• key actions internal audit and risk functions should consider now.

With digital transformation reshaping the modern enterprise, applications represent a new class of assets and an important source of differentiation. The ever-more-competitive digital economy requires that your applications be delivered with unprecedented speed, scale, and agility, which is why more and more organizations are turning to the cloud.
This explosive growth of apps hosted in the cloud creates a world of opportunities—and a whole new set of challenges for organizations that must now deploy and manage a vast portfolio of applications in multi-cloud environments. Automation and orchestration systems can help streamline and standardize IT processes across traditional data centers, private clouds, and public clouds. But with rapid innovation come concerns about security and delivering a consistent experience across environments.

It seems like every day there’s another article about IoT, big data analytics, and cloud architectures—and their unlimited potential for companies trying to gain a competitive edge in this digital world. If your business is in the midst of a digital transformation (and chances are, it is), you’re probably already enjoying some the benefits of the public cloud: economies of scale, preconfigured solutions that can be spun up with a few clicks, utility billing, and more. What you may not have heard, however, is how the shared security model of the public cloud affects your security responsibilities —and how it can be used to your advantage in these multicloud environments.

We have a world of technology at our fingertips, but is it actually leading to stronger, more agile organisations? How do these new tools serve as the catalysts for more productivity and greater executions of companies’ larger marketplace ambitions? In the brief "4 Trends Redefining Performance Management,” we cover:
1. Embracing the digital transformation
2. Rethinking performance management
3. Rising employee engagement
4. Business insights
Download the brief to learn how you can expand HR's role in boosting company success.

Our latest study, Agile Finance Revealed, looks to identify the traits of agile finance leaders and benchmark their success in creating a dynamic new operating model that is resilient, responsive, and predictive – enabling finance to lead digital transformation – not just react to it. At Oracle, we believe that digital transformation brings companies into the future, and it enables them to be more competitive.

Organization leaders and companies of all sizes are leveraging digital transformation to lead their markets with disruptive technology. CFOs can get in front of these technologies with a cloud-based billing solution and lead their businesses to greater success.
This eBook explores how the right solution can help you:
• Increase streams of revenue with new technologies like IoT and cryptocurrency
• Launch product innovations quickly
• Automate billing to improve customer retention
Discover more today.

New Gartner research predicts that 75% of IT organizations will have a bimodal capability by 2017. Bimodal is a critical capability that
combines the solid conventional capabilities of IT alongside a capability to respond to the level of uncertainty and the need for
agility required for a digital transformation. According to Gartner,
half of IT organizations that have a bimodal capability will make a
mess. Learn more about Gartner's predictions for common mistakes that CIOs will make and how to avoid them.